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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






2. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






3. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






4. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






5. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






6. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






7. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






8. The person who 'tells' the story.






9. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






10. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






11. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






12. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






13. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






14. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






15. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






16. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






17. Broken down acts.






18. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






19. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






20. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






21. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






22. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






23. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






24. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






25. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






26. A four line stanza in a poem.






27. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






28. The organizational form of a literary work.






29. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






30. A strong pause within a line.






31. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






32. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






33. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






34. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






35. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






36. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






37. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






38. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






39. The dictionary meaning of a word.






40. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






41. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






42. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






43. The time and place of a story or play.






44. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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45. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






46. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






47. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






48. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






49. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






50. A three-line stanza.







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